Julião, MiguelNunes, BaltazarBarbosa, António2016-03-102016-03-102015-01Psychother Psychosom. 2015;84(1):57-8. doi: 10.1159/000366207. Epub 2014 Dec 240033-3190http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/3687Letter to the EditorThe empirical literature regarding the effect of psychotherapy on the survival of cancer patients is highly contested. Dignity therapy (DT) is a brief, individualized intervention, which gives terminally ill patients the opportunity to convey memories and important disclosures and to prepare a legacy document . The aim of this study was to determine whether those patients randomized to DT along with SPC had a survival advantage over those randomized to SPC alone.Dignity therapy and its effect on the survival of terminally ill Portuguese patientsengEstados de Saúde e de DoençaPsychotherapyCancerDignity TherapyStandard Palliative CarePortugaljournal article10.1159/000366207